Example sentences of "which he [vb past] was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1941 her much-loved younger son Peter was lost at sea when the ship on which he served was torpedoed in mid-Atlantic ; she never recovered from this loss . |
| 2 | The African colony to which he returned was regarded by the British government as ‘ advanced ’ — in African terms — which meant that it had made a start on the road to self-government ; however , the Colonial Office reckoned that the goal was still distant . |
| 3 | The book which he wrote was circulated to the English universities and he then became a member of a mission to Italy to press the divorce on the Pope . |
| 4 | But Darlington Tory councillor Peter Jones has hit out at the Labour group , which he said was alerted of problems seven years ago . |
| 5 | He blamed France for the delay , which he said was caused by Paris 's continuing insistence that Strasbourg should be confirmed as the permanent site of the EC Parliament 's plenary sessions . |
| 6 | Under cross-examination at the time , Mr Bond admitted to a superannuation fund of about £870,000 , which he said was held by trustees . |
| 7 | Sweet used the best figures available to make his calculations on the issue , which he said was clouded by " disinformation " . |
| 8 | The Finance Minister Crispus Kiyonga on July 3 , 1989 , presented a budget for 1989/90 ( the fiscal year starting on July 1 , 1989 ) which he said was aimed at strengthening the balance of payments and at reducing inflation , but which nevertheless would provide for a 40 per cent salary increase for civil servants . |
| 9 | The gypsy clan to which he belonged was ruled by a chief , or ‘ king ’ , called Isaac Miller ; tradition has it that Billy stabbed Miller to death and assumed the kingship in his place . |
| 10 | His fancy had a strange tendency to wander to the river , which he knew was flowing through the great city ; and now he thought how black it was , and how deep it would look , reflecting the hosts of stars — and more than all , how steadily it rolled away to meet the sea ( 6 ) . |
| 11 | at all , no sense of dedication , because the job which he knew was going to be his , before he met the this Simpson . |
| 12 | Moreover , he noticed an electric lighting cable passing over the wall to an adjoining house , which he found was occupied by a senior official . |
| 13 | This continent seems to have been created by Augustus Le Plongeon for his 1896 novel Queen Moo and the Egyptian Sphynx , which he claimed was based on original Mayan writings — which writings , of course , just happened to be unavailable to other scholars . |
| 14 | The responsibility for the serious incident to which he referred was shared among several water authorities . |
| 15 | And yet in the same lecture he had expressed his belief that the tradition of which he spoke was drawing to a close ; and , in the poem , the encounter with the familiar but only half-glimpsed figure is charged with a sense of transitoriness and loss : |
| 16 | The dilemma of which he spoke was felt by filmmakers as they sought to make films that dealt with the pressing contemporary issues , at a time when the initiative in world affairs had passed decisively to the Americans . |
| 17 | In Sutcliffe v Thackrah [ 1974 ] AC 727 at 763D Lord Salmon explained the point as follows : In Re Hopper Cockburn CJ … was … saying that the question whether anyone was to be treated as an arbitrator depended on whether the role which he performed was invested with the characteristic attributes of the judicial role . |
| 18 | The antechamber which he entered was filled with silent N'pani . |